On 2008-09-12, Tomá¹ Ebenlendr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Consider also showing a xmessage at first ion start. Consider school labs,
> where administrator installs such pakage, but students are using it (and
> bugreporting). Both administrator (when installing) and user (at first
> run) should be notified.

I don't find it that big a problem: never had people using Ion
installed by admins in a school or so ask for help for old
versions, and I suppose people are more aware that in a school
lab, the admin is first to blame for obsolete software. After
all, _they_ haven't personally installed the program _recently_,
and may be inclined to find out whether the admin's fucked up.
Or maybe just people who know better to bug the author, don't
use ion installed by school lab admins.

But if they've just personally installed it from a distro site
-- which is unfortunately too much easier than packages that
authors can provide, giving the distros a de facto central
control over software installs -- they seem to expect to be
using an official source and get something that the author 
also supports. This needs to change, and the author again
become the primary source for the software.

-- 
Tuomo

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